English summary: Marie-Louise Gotheins History of Garden Art appeared in 1914 and remains a standard work to this day. Born in Prussia, she owed to her husband, the national economist and cultural scholar Eberhard Gothein, her academic life in Karlsruhe, Bonn and Heidelberg. The mother of four sons, she emancipated herself rather early through her own English studies and translations. The city on the Neckar became the authors third and final home...